China Mobile Executive Is Ousted

State-Run Firm Says a Former Senior Leader Faces Investigation

BEIJING—A China Mobile Ltd. provincial head and former senior executive was removed from his positions and is under investigation for "severe discipline violations," the state-owned company said in an email Tuesday.

China Mobile, the world's largest mobile carrier by subscribers, said in the email that the company's provincial chairman and party secretary for the southern province of Guangdong, Xu Long, was recently removed from his posts and is under investigation by the "relevant department." The...